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O N JUNE 28, 1919, the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France, for the third time in its history, was the scene of an event of world-wide sig nificance. On that date was signed the treaty of peace which ended officially the World war. In this same hall on January 18, 1871, the King of Prussia, head of a conquering army, had been proclaimed Emperor of Germany and there on February 26 of the same year the preliminary treaty of peace concluding the Franco- Prussian war had been signed. It ended that war, it is true, but those two events laid the foundations for an other and greater war which was to flame forth 43 years later. The authors of the Treaty of Versailles, signed 20 years ago this month, were known as the “Big Four”—Georges Clemen- ceau of France, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Wood- row Wilson of the United States and Vittorio Orlando of Italy. They had stated their desire to bring about a “firm, just and dur able peace.” In the light of what has happened since then, it now seems extremely doubtful if they applied the right adjectives to the word “peace”—especially the last one! For 20 years later finds that peace anything but “firm” and “durable” and that, according to the present head of the nation which had no other choice but to accept it, is because it was much less than a “just” peace. Now on the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Ver sailles it is not inappropriate to examine some of its provisions and see what their present status is. The League of Nations. The first of those provisions was the Covenant of the League of Nations. The principal expo nent of that covenant, which was supposed to be a guarantee against future wars, was Wood- row Wilson, President of the Unit ed States. Yet his country almost immediately refused to join it and the passing of two decades has seen Japan and Italy, two of its founders, leave it and Ger many, a later joiner, resign from it. The two principal weapons of the league which were to en force its decrees—economic and military sanctions—have proved to be impotent and today the League of Nations exists more in name than in fact. The second and third provisions of the treaty dealt with the boun daries of Germany and reassign ment of European territories. True, France still has Alsace- Lorraine but the Saar Basin is back under the sovereignty of Germany, as is the Memel dis trict of East Prussia. “Germany acknowledges and will respect strictly the independ ence of Austria—she agrees that this independence shall be inali enable, except with the consent of the council of the League of Nations.” So read one of the par agraphs in the treaty. What would be the thoughts of Kurt Schuschnigg, former chancellor of Austria and recently released from a Nazi prison (or was he?), upon reading those words now? “Germany . . . recognizes the complete independence of the Czecho-Slovak state . . . Germa ny hereby recognizes the fron tiers of this state as determined by the principal allied and as sociated powers and the other in terested states.” Has Eduard Benes, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, now a lecturer in the United States, learned enough of our American idiom to say “Oh, yeah?” if shown that passage in the treaty. No Fortifications? “Germany is forbidden to maintain and construct any forti fications either on the left bank of the Rhine or on the right bank of the Rhine west of a line drawn 50 kilometers east of the Rhine ... In the area defined above, the maintenance and the assem bly of armed forces, and mili tary maneuvers of any kind as well as the upkeep of all perma nent works for mobilization, are in the same way forbidden.” Would Adolf Hitler’s lips curl in an ironical smile if you should point out those paragraphs to him? The military, naval and aerial provisions of the treaty stated that the German army was to be limited to 100,000 men (Hitler is said to have had 100,000 men under arms during the Czech cri sis and he occupied the Sudeten- land with 250,000). “Universal compulsory military service shall be abolished in Germany” said the treaty. (Each year 500,000 young Germans are being put into uniform, according to relia ble reports.) German naval forces were lim ited to six 10,000-ton battleships, six light cruisers, 12 destroyers and 12 torpedo boats and the con struction or acquisition of subma rines were forbidden. Ask the German workmen who have been building 35,000 and 26,000-ton ships and a whole fleet of U-boats about that provision! “The armed forces of Germa ny must not include any mili tary or naval air forces.” Col. Charles Lindbergh could furnish some interesting testimony as to the observance of that clause in the treaty. No fortifications commanding the routes between the North sea and the Baltic were to be main tained. The fortifications and na val harbors of the islands of Heligoland and Dune were to be destroyed, and no new fortifica tions were to be constructed with in 50 kilometers of the German coast. Ask the captain of any ship which steams past Heligo land whether or not any fortifica tions are noticeable! With Herr Hitler repeatedly re ferring to the return of Germa ny’s lost colonies, it is interesting to read in the Treaty of Ver sailles this sentence: “Germany renounces in favor of the princi pal allied and associated powers all her rights and titles of her oversea possessions.” Look in the Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations and you’ll find this table: Colony Ruanda Urundi Tanganyika Cameroons Cameroons . Tbgoland Togoland Souhwest Africa Pacific Islands (Caroline, Marianne, Marshall Islands) New Guinea Nauru Western Samoa Present Mandatory Power Belgium Great Britain France Great Britain France Great Britain Union of South Africa Japan Australia Australia New Zealand “But,” you say, “weren’t Italy and the United States both Allied Powers during the war? How come, then, that they aren’t list ed among the ‘mandatory pow ers’?” The answer is, of course, that Uncle Sam didn’t want any of the former German posses sions. Italy did, and by the Lon don treaty of 1915 had been prom ised “equitable” compensation in the event that France and Great Britain increased their colonial territories in Africa at the ex pense of Germany. In 1919 she wanted those two nations to make good on their promise. But it wasn’t until 1925 that Italy ob tained Jubaland from Great Brit ain and some unimportant “recti fication” of frontier lines through uninhabited wastes from France. And that’s one reason for the cel ebrated “Rome-Berlin axis” of ^today. Of course, there are a number - ’of other items in the Treaty of Versailles which aren’t worth the paper they’re written on— “scraps of paper” so to speak. Altogether they add up to a trea ty that in two decades has fallen far short of bringing about the “firm, just and durable peace” which the “Big Four” believed they had achieved when on June 28, 1919, they summoned into the Hall of Mirrors German repre sentatives, and said to them in effect, “Here is the dotted line on which you are to sign.” Forty-three years after a peace was signed at Versailles in 1871, France and Germany were again at war. Will history repeat it self and find them again at war in 1961—43 years after the Ver sailles treaty of 1919? Or will II come much sooner than that? In so far as this article has list ed so many provisions of the Treaty of Versailles which Ger many has not honored, it seems rather superfluous to mention an other, since it has to do with—of all things!—a skull. Article 246 of the treaty says: “Germany will hand over to His Britannic Majesty’s government the skull of the Sultan M’kwawa which was removed from the protectorate of German East Africa and taken to Germany.” And thereby hangs this tale: When the Germans began their penetrations of East Africa in the last decades of the Nineteenth century, they met strong opposi tion from certain Bantu tribes, who were Wahabi Moslems. Among the peoples of Africa the Bantus are regarded as the bravest and most advanced, and in the Mohammedan religion the Wahabis are the fanatical Puritau type and best fighters. A Magic Charm. Beginning in 1870 the sultans of the Bantus, leaders of this fierce Wahabi sect, fought the German occupation of their lands around Lake Tanganyika for nearly 30 years. The last and greatest of these was Sultan M’k wawa who added a mystical note to the native shrewdness and courage of his predecessors. The word spread among his people that he had a magic charm which would prevent his ever being cap tured by his enemies. So the young Bantus flocked to his standard, resolved to fight to the death against the oppres sions of the Germans. German soldiers found it dan gerous to wander far from their posts lest they be wiped out in a Bantu ambush. Eventually, however, the German Mausers wore down the resistance of the poorly armed Bantus. In the late nineties the sultanate, which had held its own since 1870, found it self on its last legs. M’kwawa, who had convinced himself and his followers that Allah would never let him be taken, found himself cornered. What he told his followers is unknown. He had guaranteed he could not be captured; he could maka certain he would never be taken alive. So he committed sui cide, believing it Allah’s will. But he was not quick enough. The" advance guard of Captain Von Prinz’s Germans, headed by Ser geant Merkal, came upon the body before it could be spirited away. Sergeant Merkal had little thought of charms, of magic, of the will of Allah. He was a mat ter-of-fact modern European. But the head had a definite value for him, for the government offered 6,000 rupees for the man who would take M’kwawa, dead or alive. He severed the head from the body, and preserved it in al cohol, as evidence that he was entitled to the reward. Feeling that the country was now pacified, Captain Von Prinz ordered his men to return to the nearest blockhouse for a rest. The sultan’s head was locked in the cellar of the fort. One night, when the garrison was sleeping, a handful of men slipped into the blockhouse, and groped their way into the cellar. They took the head preserved in its alcohol and made their way out without disturbing anyone. Head Is Stolen. In the morning it was found that M’kwawa’s head and the al cohol were gone. In its place was a freshly severed Bantu head. Perhaps it had belonged to an informer who had betrayed the sultan’s whereabouts to the Germans. Since then both heads have be deviled the Germans, one by its absence, the other by its pres ence. The head of the sultan, buried somewhere in the terri tory, could be resurrected at any time as a signal for Bantu re volt. The presence of the other head gave color to the idea that the Germans were lying when they claimed to have lost the sultan’s skull. After the World war, when Ger man East Africa became Tan ganyika territory, a British man date, the English wished posses sion of the sultan’s skull. Per haps they thought it would add to the native respect of their new rule. Perhaps they wished to present it to the natives as evi dence of British kindliness as contrasted with German cruelty. Anyhow, they had Article 246 written into the Treaty of Ver sailles. But it turned out that the sul tan’s skull was probably one of those reparations which Germa ny lacked the capacity to pay. Evidence was taken among the soldiers who had been present in the blockhouse, and from the wid ow of Captain Von Prinz. All agreed that the head had been lost, was still buried in some se cret place in Africa, ready to be produced again when the time for revolt was ripe. In 1920 the British appeared to be satisfied with the explanation. Yet in several cases the sultan’s skull bobbed up unexpectedly to disturb the British parliament when some member of that body asked why Article 246 of the Treaty of Versailles had never been complied with. It is doubt ful, though, if it is likely to come up again. There are too many others vastly more important to wnrrv about now! Uncle Phil Man Is Gregarious A delight in solitude is an ac quired taste—and usually compuh sory. When love takes flight from a window, it is usually from the din ing room window. 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